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LEAP! GOES HOLLYWOOD
I’m sitting in the president’s office at Fox Broadcasting to pitch a drama series inspired by Leap! There are four of us trying to sell this project: Goldie Hawn, Marta Kauffman, Nancy Josephson and...
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YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN
Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker were standing in the wings on opposite sides of a theater in New York, waiting to go onstage in a musical revival of “Enter Laughing.” As the overture began, the...
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If you haven’t seen it already, check out “The Kids are All Right,” directed by Lisa Chodolenko. The acting and writing are spectacular: each character is real, flawed and charming. But one element...
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Angels Made of Iron
Here’s a tonic for the misery many of us feel these days when we hear the news from Washington. Rent “Iron Jawed Angels,” an HBO film made in 2004. I came late to the party — I’d never heard of it —...
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Joan Didion Buries the Baby
I’ve just published JOAN, a memoir about my 40 years of friendship with Joan Didion, and what I’ve learned from her about writing and about life. I did not set out to do this, however, when I...
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Bloody Marvelous
Hemingway wrote in his collection, By-line: Ernest Hemingway, “You must be prepared to work always without applause.” He said critics would take joy in pronouncing your latest work a failure and you...
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Still Teens after all These Years
I had the most fun this week that I’ve ever had at a concert—seeing the Beach Boys at Red Rocks in Denver. On tour for the first time in more than twenty years, they played 51 songs, during which I and...
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Guru Unmasked
I rarely go to see a movie twice, but after watching Kumaré, I went back to see it again the next day. Directed by Vikram Gandhi, the film is hilarious and profound, playful and edgy. A bright, indie...
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My Dinner with Mick
When I was in my 20’s, in the Stone Age, I was married to a disc jockey and obsessed with Mick Jagger. Several close friends and I had rich fantasies about him, so I arranged to write a story about...
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Reading Bobby, Arlene, and Jane
I found the video on YouTube: Bobby Kennedy speaking to a rally of black people in Indianapolis in 1968, on the night Martin Luther King was shot. Bobby had been informed about King’s death by the...
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High Noon – Antidote for Trump Malaise
When in despair with the fortune of our country, I began reading High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, by Glenn Frankel. His thesis is that Carl Foreman, the...
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Woodstock — Children of Mainstream America
This is Part 2. To read Part 1, click here. I don’t know how or when I got home. I remember driving my black Beetle out through the tight-packed crowds. This time, though, without police escorts, I...
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